Our commitments

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As a large-scale event in society, the International Agricultural Show has improved their practices, on different levels for several years. No waste management, fight against food waste, optimizing gas and electricity consumption, choosing sustainable materials for the construction of as many areas as possible or improving animals’ welfare at the Show... Every edition is an opportunity to implement and develop new adapted actions.

Our CSR ambitions and actions

Fighting food waste

 teams are mobilized at the International Agricultural Show and have been for several years through actions to fight food waste: several collect campaigns are organized throughout the Show, allowing the collect of leftovers on stalls. 
In 2023, this operation created 12,000 meals.

Protecting our biodiversity

  • The International Agricultural Show has a beehive, adopted in 2018. Thanks to our annual contribution, our beekeeper takes care our 25,000 bees colony in Auvergne. 
  • Our goal: saving the bees by allowing the creation of new colonies! The hive is made of recycled or recovered wood and metal. The paint is toxic substances free, is assembled and maintained by a local company, collaborating with disabled employees.

  Paper reduction

  • Visitor tools are, whenever possible, made with eco-friendly materials when they are not dematerialized through the WebApp.
  • Quantities of printed visit plans have been reduced* in favor of Webapp. It allows the visitor to have, through a QR Code displayed all around pavilions, an interactive map on screen. Documents are printed on recycled paper, since 2020.

*-36% in 2022

  • Tickets, carts and maps prints are certified  and 
  • Since 2022, the wall orientation maps inside the pavilions will be printed on recyclable PVC-free vinyl and glued to recycled and recyclable cardboard supports.
  • Since 2023, the Show has been using recycled paper whenever possible for its poster campaigns in Paris, the Île-de-France region and the rest of France.
  • Since the launch of the commercial campaign for the SIA 2023, all the team's commercial tools, brochures and business cards have been dematerialized and presented with QR codes.

 

More responsible goodies

  • The SIA is turning to more responsible goodies for its official store and its VIP gifts.
  • The magnet sold in the Show's boutique is certified Origine France Garantie
  • In 2022, the SIA is changing its shopping bag model, an iconic goodie sold in its official boutique, previously made of braided PP, for a model made of jute and cotton, 0% plastic.

 

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Operation to revalorize urine collected at the Show

  • With Toopi Organics and Happee Services, partners of the Show, the Paris International Agricultural Show and its public contribute in their own way to resilient and circular agriculture. In fact, these two French companies collect human urine and convert it into biostimulants for agriculture.
  • Two objectives for this partnership: to participate in the 50% reduction in the import/use of mineral fertilizers and to show that an event player can have environmental commitments.
  • Thus, 46 male but also female urinals are installed. Collection is carried out by a gas-powered vehicle.

Respect animal welfare

  • In addition to the veterinary teams who work 24 hours a day at the Show from the arrival of the animals until their departure, the SIA has had an audit and consulting firm for several editions to improve their reception conditions at the Show.
  • For their comfort, the cattle stalls, the pigs' boxes and all the rings are equipped with rubber mats. In addition, for draft horses the occupied boxes are sized accordingly.
  • The animals are fed with high quality hay (Crau hay, organic hay...), with a permanet access to water. In order to create rest periods for the animals, the light in the halls is reduced in the evening to reach a nocturnal penumbra for a minimum period of 6 hours.
  • When they have to move to the milking parlour or to a ring, the animals follow a pattern of movement in the halls with their breeders, which allows them to have secure and quieter corridors rather than the busy main aisles.
  • An ethics and animal welfare committee, which brings together the main parties involved in the organization of the event, has been created. Its role is to collect feedback from all the stakeholders involved in the Animal sector during the show (veterinarians, veterinary assistants, breeders, animal commissioners...) and to make decisions in order to react promptly or to adjust existing processes directly on site, if necessary.
  • Each year, the SIA optimizes its educational warnings to call on visitors to do not touch the animals or to feed them. The messages communicated at the Show and the signs hung on the stalls or the animals' boxes appeal to the visitors' sense of responsibility and challenge them: we love animals, let's respect their peace!